Naomi Mann, daughter of Jonathan Mann, and Lachlan Forrow, President of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, unveiled the plaque.

A plaque listing the recipients of an award inaugurated at HSPH by the late professor Jonathan Mann was unveiled in the François Xavier-Bagnoud (FXB) Building Lobby during a special ceremony on February 23. The event was attended by members of his family, awardees, School members, and the director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program at The World Bank.

Mann served as the first head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS and became a prominent figure in illuminating the intersection of health and human rights. He founded the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the School and served as the first François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor from 1993 to 1997. He left HSPH to become the dean of the Allegheny University School of Public Health in Philadelphia. On September 2, 1998, Mann and his wife, Mary Lou Clements-Mann, were killed in the crash of Swissair Flight 111.

In 1991, Mann inaugurated at HSPH the Albert Schweitzer Award, named after the Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. The award, sponsored by The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, is given annually to a graduating student whose work and current activities has most embodied Dr. Schweitzer's ethic of "reverence for life" and his insistence that "my life is my argument." Past recipients have included a doctor who helped establish Massachusettsı first health clinic for Native Americans run by Native Americans, and a paralympian who has devoted himself to raising funds for charitable causes.

The plaque features a medallic sculpture of Schweitzer created by Ann Shaper Pollack, a sculptor, medallist, and jewelry designer whose works are represented in the Smithsonian Institution and British Museum. She donated the sculpture because she is a great admirer of Schweitzer, she said.